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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-01

And IN accord snce with law. and an or
der Of the Board Of Directors. made ON
the 10th day OF October. isS6 60 MANY
shares Of each parcel Of suchstock IS may
b. necessary win be sold at public auction
at the office Of the company, q sacrar
mento street. San Francisco, California
wednesday, the 9Th day Of January, lSe7,
at the hour Of u o'clock .. N OF said
day, TO pay said delinquent assessment
thereon. together with the costs ct adver-
Using ard expenses Of the sale
de45ia5 4. H. HENDERs ON,
Secretary oe Renton Coal Company.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-01

Ths PosT-InTrLzsazsozn wishes ~
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not rssd Il, . Hsppy Nee Yeas.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-01

BuRKR-In Seatfie Dec. 81. Of hemorr-
hagU o. the lungs Jas. Burke ARed S..
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Catholic Church today e. Z D. N.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-01
New Rallk Cows for sale.

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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Three Valuable Vacant Houses.

Three of the finest houses in New
York city, formerly owned by the rich
est women in the city, are now vacated
by death, and are only in charge of SER
wants. These houses belong to the es-
tates of Mary Jane Morgan, Cornelia
NJ. Stewart, and Henrietta Lenox. The
first left couple of millions and the
finest collection of works of art and
bric-a-brac in America. The estate,
however is in litigation, and in the
meantime the house stands vacant.
The estate of Henrietta Lenox is also in
litigation, and her late residence is like
ly to remain in its present condition for
some time. The Stewart estate will
probably be the first to be settled, and
the vacant palace is really in the mar
ket, though it has not thus far been
publicly offered for sale. The delay,
however, is only due to the difficulty in
disposing of the pictures. Hilton does
not want them, for, to say nothing OF
the cost, he has no place for such works,
some of which require a gallery built
for the purpose. Young Clinch, the
| favored heir, does not want them. as he
prefers to live in Paris. If William IL
Vanderbilt were alive, he. no doubt,
would be purchaser, but he is gone
and in his death art lost the most liber-
al patron it has yet possessed in Amer
lea. Hilton and Clinch are, therefore
obliged to face the only alternative
which is an auction, and this is SO repul
sive that it viii be delayed as long a.
possible. Next to invading Stewart
tomb viii be the rush of ruthles:
crowd into that palace which he 81
carefully guarded-but it now seems
ineyitable-Cor.T Troy Times.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Tne London OId Lady.

The afternoon tea is almost a neces
sity in London life. 1t is considered
useful as ''a pick me up and it serves
an admirable purpose in the social sys-
tenn. 1t costs the household hardly any
trouble or expense. II brings people
together in the easiest possible way ,fol
ten minutes or an hour, Just as their
engagements or fancies may settle it.
A cup of tea at the right moment does
for the virtuous reveler all that Falstaf
claims for a good sherris-sack, or al
atom" 1T ascends me into the brain
dries me there all the foolish and dull
and crudy vapors which environ it
makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive
full of nimble, fiery and delectabl,
shapes, which delivered over to tbs
voice, the tongue, which is the birth
becomes excellent wit
But it must have the right brain tC
work upon, and | doubt if there is an,
brain to which it is so congenial anC
from which it brings so much as that o
first-rate London old lady. | cam,
away from the great city with the feel
ing that this most complex product o
civilization was nowhere else developed
to such perfection. The octogenarial
Londoness has been in society-let u
say the highest society-all her days
She is as tough as an old macaw, or sh
would not have lasted so long. Sh
has seen and talked with all the celebri
ties of three generations, all the beau
| ties of at least half a dozen decades
Her wits have been kept bright by con
slant use, and as she is free of speech i
| requires some courage to face her. Ye
nobody can be more agreeable, even t.
| young persons, than one of these pre-
cious old dowagers. A great beauty is al
most certainly thinking how she look
| while one is talking with her; an auth
Dress is waiting to have one praise he
book; but grand old lady, who love
London society, who lives in it, VIII
understands young people and all sort
of people, with her high-colored recol
lections of the past and her grandma
ternal interests in the new generation
is the best of companions, especiall
over a cup of tea just strong enough I
stir up her talking ganglions.-OtiUe
| Wendell Holmes in atlantic.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
A Wonderful Lake.

had heard much Of the wonderful
medical lake, sixteen miles west of here,
and so drove out to see it among the
clouds Of dust, gusts of wind, and
broiling sun alternately. This trip out
and back was pleasant, however,
constant change of scenery and success
sion of surprises.
We found there were three lakes in
stead of one, all the same water, said
to contain "life's elixir" a cure for
human ailments. No doubt there are
valuable properties in the water, as at
tested by the analysis and the numer-
Gus testimony of those relieved by its
| use.
We were prepared for bath. but
| time and inclination both forbade; time
| because Of the inclination first 10 eat;
inclination, from the presence of certain
| dead reptiles in the water to be seen
thing, as the attendant said, "never
before known"
| l said reptiles; these were at the bot
tom Of the lake, which seemed half liz
ard, half fish, with the fins of fish, the
arms of lizard, the body Of neither,
| with the fins of the tail horizontal, in
stead of perpendicular as with fish, a
sort of mongrel, like a salamander. In
fact, these must have had peculiar ten
acity of life to have lived in these wat
ers at all, charged with suits like lye.
out of which near by they were making
soap. The tiny waves of the lake had
lashed the water into heavy foam,
precisely in appearance like heavy
soap suds, the frothy suds piling up in
some places a foot deep or more.-Port-
Ld1ad OreqOnidn.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Conclusions About Potatoes.

After many years of practical experience
Edmund Hersey, well known Massachu-
setts cultivator, has arrived at the follow
ing conclusions;
l. Whole potatoes viii produce crop a
week or ten days earlier than those which
are divided.
2. Small, whole potatoes will produce
results rs good, If not better, than large
0nes.
3. The seed end is the better one to
plant, because it starts with more vigor
and produces more and larger potatoes.
4. A large piece is better, on ordinary
soil, than small pieces or eyes.
8. Potatoes with sprouts long enough
to break off in planting are not so good as
those with eyes advanced just enongh TO
indicate vigor.
6. The form cannot, as a rule, be
changed by planting any particular form.
z. Two distinct varieties won't mix in
the same hill
s. The more we investigate the scab the
less we know about it.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
The Care OF the Finger-NaiIs.

To keep the finger-nails in good or
der requires considerable care and at
tention. and perhaps no addition to the
modern toilet is more useful for its pur-
pose than the dainty manicure sets in
their pretty boxes. The plain unpre-
tending one which one may purchase
for dollar viii do its work quite as
well as the more expensive and elabo-
rate sets. Before using these articles
the hands should be washed in tepid
water with q fne glycerinated soap,
and before removing the lattG rubbed
with tablespoonful of fine Indian
meal or oatmeal, then rinsed in tepid
water, and after this rubbed with lit
tie glycerine in soft water. The hands
should be rubbed together until the
glycerine and water has nearly evap-
Grated, then they should be dried com
pletely and the nails cut and cleansed
with the nail scissors and cleaner while
they are still soft from the action of the
tepid water. Next push down the skin
which is apt to grow over the nails
and proceed to polish them. For this
purpose take your chamois polisher
put a pinch of the nail powder on it
face, and rub each nail till it acquires
a fine polish and a rosy color.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Au.i.nl.nra1 Notas-

According to the national agricultural
department report the general average
condition of the wheat crop for the whole
country is represented by SO.
The losses of sheep from all causes dur
ing the year ending April l is z per cent.
of the whole number of sheep, as against
an equal percentage during the corre-
spending period of 1856. Numerically
the loss is smaller than in 1856, for, al
though the percentage is the same, it ap-
plies to reduced number, the total num-
Der of sheep being now 45, 100000, as COM
pared with 4S, 600, 900 year ago.
The losses of swine from all causes
through the entire country have been
heavy, amounting TO nearly 6,0OO, 000 dur
ing the year.
A recent estimate places the value OF
the dairy products of this country in 1885
at $3.50, 445, ,6SS.
The Texas legislature has passed pub
lie land bin giving the farmer chance TO
secure a homestead on forty years credit
at 5 per cent. interest.
Recent reports made by Florida orange
growers make it appear that during the
season of 1867 about 1000, 900 boxes OF
oranges have been marketed at On aver
age price of 80 per box. The outlook now
is said TO be promising and crop of ,SUV,
600 boxes is predicted for next year.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Good Taste in Dress.

The American girl and woman don't
dress as well as they should. Anglo
maniacs of lesser or greater degree
may talk about the athletic English
woman and the extra weight and
strength that she carries if they like.
The talk isn't good. American FEM
ininity has more strong points, outside
of that of health, than that of any
other nation. except the savages, of
which We know little except that the
sun and fresh air have plenty of chance
at them and that they work very hard
and despise the hired girl. But our
women are most inartistic dressers. 4
promenade on any crowded street in
any American town will show that
Take trip and see for yourselves I'll
wager a good deal that fat and squat
women will be seen in light colored
garments and thin women in funeral
black garments that show their imper-
fections of figure as luridly as a black
lettered sign on white card.
| wouldn't give a picayune myself
for woman who has not the necessary
pride to dress herself as well as her
means will allow. Clean, neat, and
even luxuriant dress-always sup
posing that one can afford luxury
tell of ambition, and ambitions an ex-
| cellent thing if controlled. 1t may be
an absence of taste that leads q woman
to dress in unsuitable dresses and
choose unsuitable patterns and shades
for them. But advice is one of the
| cheapest things of the present day.
| And it is not alone the gaunt and the
fat women who handicap their faces
and figures with bad dresses of bad
shapes and worse colors. | see girls
who are fair of face, but a little fleshy.
who use barred goods for their dresses,
and wear close and small hats and
| bonnets; and tall and rather diapha-
nous maidens, who have an inordinate
affection for bars and big brimmed
hats. Very bad taste, my dears,
assure you, and unnecessarily bad
taste, too. It's taste that no amount of
money can put into shape, because il
arrays nature and art against each
| other.
And men are rs bad or worse. They
do not show as badly as women be-
cause the standard of dress is not as
high among them. A really we'll
dressed man is something of a curiosity,
though there are quite a number OF
them in every group. wish that the
average apportionment of brain among
them was larger than it is. for it has
been my bad luck to meet good deal
of masculine vapidity in good clothes.
But / suppose the well-dressed men OF
n century of civilization average uI
better on intellectually. At least
hope so. We all know thin young
men who have an abiding love foI
striped and very tight trousers and
hats with overpowering brims. And
we all know how the general effect OF
the hat, the trousers, and the man
strikes the eye-of everybody but the
thin man. All tall men wear pea
jackets and short ones frock coats, and
fair men red neckties and dark one:
blue and green shaded ones. This in
congruity puts more color and humol
into ones look at the throng, I'll ad
NIT, but it isn't healthy and ought Il
be banished. CleUeldrad Pidindedler.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
GROUND LlNE I'M FB0NI

CROSS SECTION OF BARN WITH SILO.
four days elapsing between filings.
When all was in, it was left about
week, when it was leveled and
covered with building paper, with boards
on top of paper, and after several days
four inches of earth was put on. Opened
the silo and commenced feeding the mid
die of January. Found it in very good
condition with the exception of some at
the corners, where the boarding joining
the wall was not perfect. The ensilage
was quite sour, but the cattle ate it
ravenously, preferring it to almost any
other feed, and there was an increase in
the flow of milk about five per cent. Some
friends who We're skeptical in regard to
the ensilage making good butter acknOw-
ledged, after tasting it, that it was as good
as from any other feed. This farmer has a
farm of 10 acres and has been able to
keep forty head of stock by buying some
mill feed. With ensilage, he thinks he
can double the number of stock. This
year he contemplates fitting up both wings
of his COW barn, making two silos twenty
eight by eleven feet and fifteen feet deep
which he estimates will hold about III
tons. He viii be particular to make the
silOS air tight
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
The Cattle of the Country.

The latter part of this winter was severe
on the stock in the Atlantic states as far
south as the Carolinas. The average by
states, however, varies but little from
that of last year According to Statisti-
clan Dodge the cattle of the New England
states are in generally good condition.
The states north and westward from the
Ohio TO the Missouri rivers show an aver
age condition as regards flesh and free
dom from disease. Shelter and food are
provided rs required, and losses are re
duced 10 a minimum. Condition is high
in California and Oregon, both being
slightly above the average. The cattle on
the ranges suffered severely from the In
clemency of the winter, and the results OF
the season will more strongly than ever
impress upon herd owners the necessity,
even from a financial point of view, OF
providing sufficient shelter against the
dreaded blizzards and of supplying them
selves with forage for more winter feed
ing
The losses of the past year were more
severe than usual, owing in some mea'
sure to the hard winter Deaths from
exposure were very large item in the
total loss, and were heavy in some OF the
range sections. In Georgia and Texas
starvation was fruitful cause of death
while in the latter state the drought pro
duced great loss Cattle have been com
paratively free from serious diseases II
most sections. The dreaded pleuro pneu
monia has appeared in a number OF coun
ties, mostly near large cities in the east
20 which the infection is generally traced
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29

A farmer sat reading in an Albany,
n. Y. restaurant, and commented on
an item in Connecticut paper in re-
ference to the intelligence of dog
which could tell the date on a news
paper. II had dog" said he, "a
common, long, yeller dog, and l called
him Zeke. He knew more than a
grand -juryman on his second term.
He would just loaf around and think.
| brought home some canned sausage
meat, and didn't like it, and so | put
1t on plate for Zeke. Well, he took
that sausage out into the garden and
buried it. Regular grave. Nothing
strange in that, you say? Wait He
went back to the house. jumped upon
the table, grabbed a big bouquet,
and went back and laid it on tht
grave. and he was only a long, yellel
dog"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
Earn SiIns-


The idea is quite prevalent that a silo
must be of masonry and very substantial
and expensive in order to gain paying re-
suits. Such, however, is not the case
Many silos are now being built in the in
terror Of the big barn, using a whole or
part of bay. According TO Prairie Far
mer nearly five times as much forage can
be put into given space in the form of
ensilage as can be stored in the same
space If the same crop is dried-fifty
cubic feet Of ensilage weighing a ton-50O
feet or more are requisite for ton of hay
A Minnesota correspondent in the jour
nal quoted from tells how he took part Of
one wing of his barn, which is eleven feet
wide in the clear, for a silo by way of ex-
pertinent. There was a stone wall on one
side and one end seven feet high, with
framework extending eight or nine feet
above 1t. This he studded up with two
by siX-inch studding, and double boarded
with building paper between. This was
filled with large ensilage corn Slightly
frost bitten cut TO one-haf inch lengths.
1t was put in pretty fast about half
way up, and well tramped. After that it
was filled in more slowly, indeed three or
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
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Brokers At Leisure.

Three members of the exchange met
in Third street saloon Tuesday, and
while slipping hot Scotch talked about
cold weather
Yes" said one gentleman, who
made his pile in building railroads, lit
is rather chilly, but | have seen worse
weather. In fact, | remember one day
back in the sos, when | had occasion
to make a trial trip over a new road in
Indiana. The mercury was somewhere
near 407 below, but ! got in the cab
with the engineer and fireman, and gave
orders to let her 20. Well, we hadn't
gone four miles until we stuck fast, and
to keep from freezing had to abandon
the engine and walk over to a farm
house. 1t was so blamed cold that the
steam froZe fast in the boilers.
"Well, that was pretty cold, said
the second man. '.but | had an expert
ence that discounts it. Several years
ago | was hunting in Michigan, and il
was bitterly cold. We were shooting
pheasants, and the birds were tame and
plenty, so we had piles Of sport. After
shooting some thirty or forty times
says 10 my partner, says /:
Jim, believe my hearing is grow
ing defective. | can't hear the report
of my own gun
Jim says in reply to this, says he
Ike, | can't hear my gun either. i
must lie the fault of the weather
about an hour later there came {
sudden thaw, and you never heard sucl
an internal noise in your life. i
sounded like the discharge of musket
ry."
What was itP' suspiciously asked
the first speaker.
''Why, the reports of our guns. TheI
had frozen up, and when that suddeI
thaw came they all thawed out at once
l tell you it frightened me at first"
There was silence for a moment
then the third man spoke up.
Il had an experience that few mel
can boast of. l used to run a logging
camp in Michigan and this is how
came TO go into the lumber business
You know how easy it is to split straigh
timbered wood when it is frozen. 1t go
so beastly cold that ! shut up my saw
mill and set half my men to sawin
down trees and the other half to split
ting them A light tap with a shar
ak would split them as straight as the
could be sawed. That cold spell laste
three weeks, and in that time ha
prepared enough timber to make m
rich.
There is one thing about your e1
perience / can't understand" suggest
ed the suspicious listener, land that
how it was that the boards did nc
splinter when split from the logs"
They did," was the quiet Response
"but the splinters froze off. "
Three well-known members {
Change are not on very good tern
Each believes the other is not to /
trusted. st Louis Critic.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29

miss Eleanore, could you please
come few moments? The doctor is
gone. and Mrs. Landis is out of her
head, and determined to get up. She
will not mind me.
Eleanore gave hurried answer, and
came back to make her excuses, when
she was startled at the new expression
in her companions face.
Excuse me-" he said. II heard
the name, and it startled me. Landis.
That is the name of the man she mar
ried. What Mrs. Lands is here?"
My seamstress, who is i'll and des-
titute"
oh he said with a feeting shade
of pain and disappointment, II was
wild to think that it could be my
Edna"
but oh, Mr. Warwick cried
Eleanore, quite unconscious that she
was laying a trembling hold on his
arm, ''her name is Edna, and she is
lovely. 1t might be heri Oh, it might
be! And her husband is deadt'
MY Godr' he murmured, feebly
sinking back into the chair from
which he had risen, and passing a
shaking hand over brows and eyes.
Can | see her?n
Il do not know. Wait here. will
see"
And away few Eleanore, leaving
him like one stunned.
The brief fit of feverish obstinacy
had passed away, and the sick woman
h.a1 ID n, -,
opiate.
Eleanore stood looking at her for a
moment and watching sleep come on.
The waxen-like face looked like that OF
an angel. and she hoped and prayed
that this Edna Lands might be the
early love of Mr.. Warwick's life.
When he was led into the room he
only gave one glance at the sweet,
frail white face; then, with smother
ed cry, dropped on his knees by the
bed, with his face buried in the pillow
over which her sunny hair strayed.
And there is no more to tell, except
how the present compensates for the
! past. Grief and care vanished from
Edna life when she woke to see her
lover beside her. A cruel mercenary
father had separated them, and played
on the sensitive heart-strings of pride
| until she married another in a despe-
rate moment. Misery, ruin, cruelty
| and death had followed, and left heI
alone in the world at last. But they
arem arried now; sorrows are all of the
past; and in their perfect happiness
they rejoice that another, in every way
worthy of her. has at last won Flea.
nore's noble heart.